Submitted by Deborah L. Zike, Aug 25, 2008 00:40

I'm looking forward to finding and reading this book. Mr. Plumly was my poetry teacher for one summer in Iowa City in the eighties. It always struck me as unusual that Mr. Plumly who always appears like a very hearty fellow to have a special empathy with the frail John Keats who wrote his best poems on his deathbed. Certainly Mr. Plumly does understand negative capability and explained it to me in a laundromat along with line breaks.

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